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ljoshua

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You can read more from me at my site: http://www.joshualyman.com

A technologist, founder, and current Googler, I've repeatedly taken products from inception to commercial success across sectors, from startups to Fortune 10 companies. My specialty lies in bridging the gap between business vision and technical execution, deeply engaging with code and who mentors teams. Beyond engineering, I bring a global perspective from living abroad for nine years and speaking fluent French.

Get in touch with me: --------------------- @jlyman j @ joshualyman.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshualyman

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ljoshua··on Ask HN: Why are usernames not secured like passwords?
In a secure environment, your password will be hashed (not encrypted), meaning there's only one way that the information can flow--toward the hash. This is secure because it allows for matching against the hash without actually knowing the original password.

However, usernames have to be displayed, shared, searched, etc. It could in theory be possible to encrypt this, but with the requirement that it be two way (so as to allow display), it is more trouble than it is worth, with minimal security gained. Most security researchers would probably also point out that if you are able to get to a point where you are dumping a database of user credentials and emails, you are probably also going to be able to retrieve the encryption key, rendering all of that encryption moot.

ljoshua··on Let's Talk About Beacons
Interesting thought. But I can't sample TV signals from a mobile device. I'm looking at applications that can be implemented underground as well, unique use case. And in this case, proximity might be just fine enough rather than positioning.
ljoshua··on Let's Talk About Beacons
What would be some of the better alternatives for doing indoor location? It'd help me a bunch to see a few examples, as I was previously thinking of beacons for this purpose.
ljoshua··on The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire Human Race
Since the membership count was already answered (no, membership count is based strictly on those living), I'll offer a quick comment on the other half of your question.

From a scriptural sense, the practice is actually based on the concept of modern revelation, where we believe that God has revealed the practice and how it works through modern-day prophets, as was done in the past. The Corinthians scripture ("misinterpretation" is rather open to interpretation) is used simply to point out an instance where it was probably practiced in the churches at the time of Paul.

ljoshua··on The Mormon Church Is Building a Family Tree of the Entire Human Race
I would guess austenallred was probably referring to the hundreds of years of records being recorded. And for the record, the LDS Church was officially founded in 1830, making it 184 years old.
ljoshua··on Ask HN: Free email with custom domain support?
Zoho Mail will do up to 10 users for free on one domain. They're my (less favorable) go-to after Google and Outlook dropped their free custom domain support.
ljoshua··on Ask HN: What programming font do you use?
Adobe's Source Code Pro is my favorite: http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=d...
ljoshua··on Why the U.S. Needs to Fall Out of Love With Homeownership
Hmm, a little too much "correlation does not imply causation" going on here. While the article even calls it out, they still present ownership vs economic output as a primary argument. It also presents cities like SF and NY as having lower ownership rates and higher incomes, but completely ignores increased cost of living and a multitude of other factors.

There are far too many z-variables being ignored here to make a strong case. Owning a home may not be a fantastic asset (I view mine as a liability until it is completely paid off) but arguing that ownership is an overall inhibitor of economic growth and financial benefit is certainly not successful in this article.

ljoshua··on Inbox — The next-generation email platform
Hi Michael, some exciting stuff here. Can you go more into monetization plans and privacy assurances?
ljoshua··on Developers: stop re-AOLizing the web!
Doesn't directly address the original author's concern, but he ought to try Boxer--similar application, does support IMAP.
ljoshua··on Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel
Everything in context. It is huge for Microsoft specifically because it's previously been so entangled. Progress is good on all fronts. For the very large portion of the world that uses IE by default and will in the future get faster/better upgrades to be more secure and more full-featured, this is great.
ljoshua··on Introducing Mapbox GL
More details here would be great! Seems like a souped-up version of Leaflet.

Man I love the stuff that MapBox puts out. High quality.

ljoshua··on Ask HN: FU Money: What is your number?
I can see that. I've been hoping more for the FU money that would bring jump #1 (which is more how I defined it in my other comment), since jump #1/FU money #1 would be the only reasonable way for me to get to jump #2/FU money #2 with the cars, travel, and no work.
ljoshua··on Ask HN: FU Money: What is your number?
$300k. This would be the perfect amount for me to stop working for someone else, take good care of my family, and have a very large runway to try out some audacious ideas. Then after a few years if I wasn't liking the direction it was taking, I would be in no hard spot and would have done some incredible things, both professionally and with the fam. (To clarify, $300k is the "quit today" amount.)

I also think that with that amount of capital it would be more plausible to create a business that would then generate the much higher numbers others are suggesting here.

ljoshua··on Hybrid sweet spot: Native navigation, web content
Has anyone used AppGyver, which seems to be a framework that incorporates this combo of native navigation with WebViews and Cordova? I've been working solely on the HTML components of an app, nav included, but would love to hear anyone's experience.
ljoshua··on YouTube Founders to Sell Delicious, a Social Bookmarking Site
I still use Delicious and love it. Just a very convenient way to save sites that I might want to refer back to in the future. The killer feature is tagging/descriptions/searching that metadata.
ljoshua··on International Space Station HD Livestream
NASA's page that combines the stream with an overview of where the ISS is over the earth at any given time: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/

(Hint: if it is over an area of daylight you're more likely to see video. Use the white line to see where it will be in 1.5 hours.)

ljoshua··on When to Hold Out For a Lower Airfare
According to Kayak itself, the best time for domestic is 3-7 weeks out, and for international destinations it varies by continent: http://www.kayak.com/news/KAYAK-Travel-Guide-2014.bd.html
ljoshua··on Microsoft ends support for custom domains in free email service
I'd love (and would pay for) a hosted email service that charged in some fashion other than per user or per domain. I've got various low volume addresses on various domains that I'd love to consolidate under one roof, and MS's custom domains was the closest thing to that. What keeps me from migrating to so many of these other services is the flat $x/address structure. That gets pricey fast if you have two or three per domain, and three, four, or more domains.

Other tacts might be charging by space consumed, messages sent, or a flat fee for a bucket with resource limits. Anyone know any providers offering models like that?

ljoshua··on How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley?
I guess I try to give people the benefit of the doubt rather than classify them negatively. True, maybe it's not that high, but one can hope. :)
ljoshua··on How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley?
Let me try and suggest an explanation.

In a democracy, you work to make your opinion heard and effective. If you have the opinion, whether based on religious or other grounds, that homosexuality may damage the overall morality of a society, then you would work to protect that society from what you would view as a potential issue. You would also support laws that would be a means to that end--the goal not being to put somebody else down but to uphold it. Therefore a person that holds such beliefs would support enacting a law that prevents something, even if it didn't constrain them in any way.

ljoshua··on How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley?

    "...but they aren't ALL hateful."
In fact, I would venture to say that an extremely FEW are hateful. There has been too much caricaturing on both sides. I am fairly certain that 95%+ of people on both sides of the issue are actually very caring, intelligent people (and yes, even on the pro-Prop 8 side like myself) who do not treat each other differently.
ljoshua··on Save more with Google Drive
Small use case to address your first question, but that I used all the time in school (and occasionally now at work): because everyone had the Dropbox client installed we would just create a shared folder that we'd all contribute to. Maybe only a couple of people ever had the Google sync client installed, and it was a lot more friction to upload/download files all the time.

On the converse, whenever we collaborated on an actual text document or presentation, we'd turn to Google Docs to do it, then when finished convert it into Word/PPT and stick it in Dropbox.

ljoshua··on TU-95MS – Soviet Bomber
That actually used to be the proper way to refer to the country in English, but has since fallen out of common parlance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#cite_note-merriam-webst...

ljoshua··on The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire
Glad to know there's interest in it! I'm making it primarily because _I_ need it--not easy to find what you need down there. I was always surprised there wasn't one yet, so I decided to make it as a fun side project.

Both iOS and Android. I'd love beta testers, you can get a hold of me through my bio.

ljoshua··on The rise of OpenStreetMap: A quest to conquer Google’s mapping empire
I'm using OSM data in a fun little app I'm building (mapping out the tunnels in downtown Houston, TX) and I've been very impressed by the tooling. Everything from the OSM site and editors themselves, to related tools like MapBox, Leaflet.js, TileMill, etc.

There are some very beautiful and functional geo-related products out there, and OSM works amazingly well in all of them.

ljoshua··on Opera is really nice.
I used to be an Opera die-hard fan--mouse gestures, built-in email and RSS client, tabs much more functional than any other browser, and very fast. It's had a long and circuitous journey, and much has changed, but the more choice the better.
ljoshua··on Fixing Windows 8 (2013)
The biggest improvement here is subtle, yet important. He made the desktop experience separate from the touch experience, and the touch experience separate from the desktop. Similar to what one would think of with Ubuntu on the desktop versus the touch version that would go on phones. Not providing the unoptimized experience would go a long way.

And the comment on Windows RT being renamed Windows Lite... good idea.

ljoshua··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)
Los Angeles, CA (FULL TIME) - Pariveda Solutions - http://www.parivedasolutions.com (other locations as well)

Immediate need for a very strong and technical manager-level hire to join our Los Angeles office and jump into some established and growing projects. You will work with our team on large Java enterprise-level applications, leading our developers and working side by side with senior leadership to deliver successful projects.

-- Significant and recent development experience and expertise in Java/J2EE and frameworks like Spring and Hibernate -- Good experience with consumer web applications and frontend HTML, CSS and JavaScript technologies like jQuery, Backbone, Angular JS -- Good experience on a major RDBMSes such as Oracle, MySQL or SQL Server

We are also hiring in pretty much all of our national offices, including Seattle, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, New York, and DC. Pay is very competitive and the benefits are fantastic (read: Cadillac). I'm not a recruiter, but can put you in touch with the right people in the firm. Contact me directly at joshua DOT lyman @ thecompany'sdomainname for any questions and to start the process.

Pariveda Solutions is an award winning software development and management consulting firm. This is truly a great place to work–focused on career development and filled with smart, passionate people who care about the work they do.

ljoshua··on Ask HN: How do you "hack" your domains?
I like the tools that do a lot of the work for me: http://www.leandomainsearch.com http://www.panabee.com http://domai.nr http://www.namemesh.com

I love using those to get my brain going, and then using that to launch into more creative and unique domains.

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